Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conservative side. They are both avances--which I shall translate by radical--and what exactly is meant by French Socialists, I don't know. Does he refer to the Socialistes de France or to the Socialistes S.F.I.O. or does he lump them all together in one dread category...
...Covenant," dryly observed Pierre Laval, "I have not hesitated to pledge France's aid to Great Britain on the sea and land and in the air, if she is attacked by Italy in the course of application of sanctions. . . . Why should I not frankly confess my fear and dread of an incident of the sort which history often produces, an incident which could drag France into a war which I have done everything to avert. The more rigorous the obligations imposed upon France by the League become, the more I have felt bound to endeavor to put through...
President Keeshin went only as far as Geneva, Ill. There he hopped out, waved a gleeful farewell, scooted back to Chicago. Few fears had he of breakdown or accident. Rather did he dread dirty political work from certain railroads and trucking companies in the Southwest which were gravely offended by his threat of expansion into their territory...
...Russia the Soviet secret service has had a long and fascinating history, increasing in respectability with the years. Members of the dread Tsarist Okhrana were remarkably successful in insinuating themselves into the Cheka of Lenin which conducted the original so-called "Red Terror." So odious did the Cheka become that it was finally supposed to have been purged of its baser elements and was renamed the Ogpu. Under the late great Felix Dzerzhinsky, an extremely able and somewhat sadistic Pole, the Ogpu became internationally odious but in Russia it saved the Bolshevik Dictatorship from being overthrown by popular and democratic...
...year-old girl, got up in the House to voice the fears & thoughts of parents: "I am calling upon the Public Health Service to call off the jamboree. I, for one, can't sit here silently and see thousands of boys come here and maybe scatter this dread disease all over the world...